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declarenta.com could not be installed as an app, and it did not work offline.

The manifest sat next to index.html, so Vite treated it as an asset and hashed it into /assets/manifest-BcA54jis.json. Its paths are relative, so they resolved under /assets/. The start URL and scope became /assets/, which puts the page itself outside the app's scope, and both icons pointed at /assets/favicon.svg, which returns 404. Chrome reported no-acceptable-icon and refused to install. The service worker had a second problem. It cached files only after it took control of the page, which happens after the first load, so a first visit cached nothing and an offline reload got the worker's "Offline" 503 page.

The fix:

  • manifest.json moves to src/web/public/ and the page links /manifest.json. Vite copies it as is, so ./ and the icons now resolve against the site root. The icons are the existing icon-192.png and icon-512.png. The SVG favicon is gone from the list, along with its maskable claim, because the icon has rounded transparent corners and would be cropped as a maskable icon.
  • A small plugin in vite.config.ts writes the list of built files into sw.js after the build. The worker caches that list on install, under one cache per deploy, and deletes older caches on activate. Fetching stays network-first, so users still get each new deploy. The precache only requests files from the site itself and adds no other network call.

I checked it in headless Chromium on the Mac mini, with a persistent profile, serving each build and then stopping the server for the offline step.

before (main) after (this branch)
manifest /assets/manifest-BcA54jis.json 200 /manifest.json 200
start_url /assets/ / 200
scope /assets/, page out of scope /, page in scope
icons /assets/favicon.svg 404 (twice) /icon-192.png 200, /icon-512.png 200
Chrome installability errors no-acceptable-icon none
worker controls the page yes yes
cached after the first visit 1 entry 42 entries
offline reload 503 "Offline" 200, app renders, version footer filled by main.ts

tests/web/pwa-manifest.test.ts covers the manifest location, start URL, scope and icon sizes, and fails on main. npm test (2546 tests), typecheck and lint pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added 192×192 and 512×512 PNG icons for the web app.
    • The app now caches its built files for quicker access and keeps cached versions aligned with the current release.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected the manifest link so it resolves from the site root, including on nested pages.
    • Improved service worker activation so cleanup completes before the app takes control.

The manifest sat next to index.html, so Vite hashed it into /assets/ and its
relative start_url, scope and icons resolved under /assets/. The icons 404'd
and the page was outside the manifest scope, so Chrome refused to install the
app. The service worker cached files only after it took control, so the first
visit cached nothing and an offline reload showed "Offline".

The manifest now lives in public/ and is served at /manifest.json with the
192 and 512 PNG icons. The build writes the app shell into sw.js, which
precaches it on install. It only fetches files from the site itself.
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Walkthrough

The manifest link now uses a root-relative path, and its icons use PNG files. The Vite build populates service-worker precache URLs. The worker precaches the app shell and manages versioned caches.

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Web app PWA setup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Manifest paths, icons, and validation
src/web/index.html, src/web/public/manifest.json, tests/web/pwa-manifest.test.ts
The manifest link changes to /manifest.json. The manifest declares 192×192 and 512×512 PNG icons. Tests check the manifest path, root-resolved start URL and scope, standalone display, and icon dimensions.
Build-generated precache and worker lifecycle
src/web/public/sw.js, vite.config.ts, tests/web/pwa-manifest.test.ts
The build plugin inserts sorted URLs for included build files into the service worker. The worker precaches those URLs during installation and deletes other caches during activation. A test checks that the precache placeholder is present.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix


Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 83b47

The app currently links the manifest, but its new test could miss a later removal of that link. This is a bounded coverage gap, not a demonstrated obstacle to merging.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: enabling installation of declarenta.com and offline use through the web app manifest and service worker.
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tests/web/pwa-manifest.test.ts (1)

29-29: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Check the active manifest link.

The raw-text regex can match the same markup inside an HTML comment. If the active link is removed while the comment remains, the test still passes. Parse INDEX_HTML and query the manifest link in the document head.

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-  const href = /<link rel="manifest" href="([^"]+)"/.exec(INDEX_HTML)?.[1];
+  const document = new DOMParser().parseFromString(INDEX_HTML, "text/html");
+  const href = document.head.querySelector('link[rel="manifest"]')?.getAttribute("href");
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Review comment at @tests/web/pwa-manifest.test.ts at line 29:
Update the manifest-link lookup in the test to parse INDEX_HTML as an HTML
document and query document.head for the active link with rel="manifest",
retrieving its href attribute. Replace the raw-text regex so markup inside
comments cannot satisfy the assertion.

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Review comments at @tests/web/pwa-manifest.test.ts:
- Line 29: Update the manifest-link lookup in the test to parse INDEX_HTML as an
HTML document and query document.head for the active link with rel="manifest",
retrieving its href attribute. Replace the raw-text regex so markup inside
comments cannot satisfy the assertion.

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